That's a powerful dream, Galorme. I wonder how much of your dream got altered by the inevitable editing our consciousness does with the dreams we remember. Even so, the archetypes in your dream, and how they function, show that it was probably an important dream for you, especially as the 'powers for good' screwed up and destroyed what was essentially good, which they couldn't see because it was outside their realm of experience. Enough about dream interpretation.
LotR being fantasy, it deals in clear-cut distinctions. Good is good, evil is evil, and the Good may therefore have pity on the evil. Reality is different. And our age is different from Tolkien's too, I think, because back then people in England and Europe did indeed consider other humans in other parts of the world, if not right around the corner, to be inferior, for whom pity seemed natural.
Since this age does not tolerate such attitudes as the assumed inferiority of other people, there is less toleration for pity and we are required to think in terms of compassion and sympathy. After all, precisely what is it that keeps you and me from murdering our cousin in order to get that precious 'Ring' (whatever it represents in our own lives)? In many cases, very little indeed - especially if we're willing to look closely and honestly at our own hearts.
lmp
[ July 28, 2002: Message edited by: littlemanpoet ]
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